Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged operas of his maturity. Three of the works were abandoned before completion and were not performed until many years after the composer's death. His mature works are all considered classics and have never been out of the repertory of the world's opera houses.
From a very young age Mozart had, according to opera analyst David Cairns, "an extraordinary capacity [...] for seizing on and assimilating whatever in a newly encountered style (was) most useful to him". In a letter to his father, dated 7 February 1778, Mozart wrote, "As you know, I can more or less adopt or imitate any kind and style of composition". He used this gift to break new ground, becoming simultaneously "assimilator, perfector and innovator". Thus, his early works follow the traditional forms of the Italian opera seria and opera buffa as well as the German Singspiel. In his maturity, according to music writer Nicholas Kenyon, he "enhanced all of these forms with the richness of his innovation", and, in Don Giovanni, he achieved a synthesis of the two Italian styles, including a seria character in Donna Anna, buffa characters in Leporello and Zerlina, and a mixed seria-buffa character in Donna Elvira.
The cast of this year’s NLMF opera production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte) will provide about 45 minutes of music, Zuponcic said ... He loves opera, especially Italian opera ... A frequent performer with Canada’sOpera Atelier, Lindsay has been praised as being equal to “the best Mozart interpreters anywhere in the world.”.
Danish stage director Kasper Holten brings his award-winning production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni to the OperaHouse in March-April next year, conducted by renowned German conductor Karl-Heinz Steffans in his Israeli Opera debut ... The curtain comes down on the 2022-23 opera season with a bang, with Mozart’s ever-popular Requiem, in July.
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Spanish opera singer who enjoyed ...Having mastered the skills required for coloratura roles, not least in the operas of Rossini, she progressed, by her own account, to Mozart for “his style, his soul”.
The Raincross Master Chorale will present “From Opera and Cinema,” a concert of music from opera and film favorites, 3 p.m ... Benavides will sing “Smanie Implicabili” from the opera “Cosi fan tutte” by Wolfgang AmadeusMozart ... She hopes to sing opera professionally and to teach voice, according to a news release.
ScottishOpera’s atmospheric revival of Mozart’s 1787 work, which is about to tour four cities here, doesn’t need to be presented in a modern context because the themes ...
The lineup of symphonic, opera and classical music performances (all ticket prices plus fees).. ◼️ OperaFayetteville stages “Second Nature,” a two-person chamber opera by Matthew Aucoin, 8 p.m ...Mozart in the Museum,” with pianist Benedetto Lupo, Artosphere FestivalOrchestra, 7 p.m.